Passing the Buck: Congress, the Budget, and DeficitsUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2021. gada 14. dec. - 296 lappuses In the past thirty years, Congress has dramatically changed its response to unpopular deficit spending. While the landmark Congressional Budget Act of 1974 tried to increase congressional budgeting powers, new budget processes created in the 1980s and 1990s were all explicitly designed to weaken member, majority, and institutional budgeting prerogatives. These later reforms shared the premise that Congress cannot naturally forge balanced budgets without new automatic mechanisms and enhanced presidential oversight. So Democratic majorities in Congress gave new budgeting powers to Presidents Reagan and Bush, and then Republicans did the same for President Clinton. Passing the Buck examines how Congress is increasing delegation of a wide variety of powers to the president in recent years. Jasmine Farrier assesses why institutional ambition in the early 1970s turned into institutional ambivalence about whether Congress is equipped to handle its constitutional duties. |
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... the budget while resisting tax increases, even if their constituents criticized deficit spending in the abstract. In order to accommodate such representation and to give members opportunities to influence legislation and.
... increases while Congress exerts real annual control over only a third of the budget known as discretionary spending and sometimes even less. These tensions in congressional budgeting are well known to politicians and budget policy ...
... increases their constituents may not favor, even if these are means to a popular end of deficit reduction. And if a legislator's constituency does not have a strong interest in an issue at the time of the vote, a legislator might ...
... increases continued into the Wilson administration, as did presidential support of new budgeting powers for the executive branch. Activities surrounding World War I escalated federal outlays from about $700 million in 1916 to $18.5 ...
... increases in the 1940s prompted a new round of budget process reforms attempts. Federal spending went from $9 billion in 1940 to $98 billion in 1945. In 1946, Congress passed the Employment Act, which officially recognized the need for ...
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Congress Attacks Deficits and Itself with GrammRudmanHollings | |
The Budget | |
The LineItem Veto Act of 1996 | |
Understanding Delegation of Power | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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